Company Summary

VALID combine’s evidence based techniques with high quality, locally manufactured "ready-to-use" nutritious foods to treat & prevent malnutrition; the greatest single source of poverty, ill health & underdevelopment today. Prevention is the most cost effective way to stimulate economic growth & save child lives. VALID treats people at risk of malnutrition as customers, with power over their own consumption choices, rather than as helpless victims

Team

Steve Collins

Founder and Executive Director

Steve Collins is a medical doctor with a doctorate in nutrition & has worked in aid & development since 1985. Steve developed the Community based Therapeutic Care model in 1998, an innovation later adopted by the WHO now called CMAM, & has since been central to the development & expansion of CMAM using Ready to Use Foods. Steve received an MBE for his services to humanitarianism in 2001, is a respected academic & a Senior Fellow of ASHOKA.

Alistair Hallam

Founder and Director

Alistair Hallam is a medical doctor & qualified economist. He has worked in the area of humanitarian aid for 24+ years managing relief programmes all over the world. Alistair worked as a research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute & is expert in evaluating humanitarian aid programs with a focus on cost effectiveness. He worked for many of the world’s leading donor governments & aid organisations including the Central Bank in Mozambique

Paul Murphy

Chief Executive Valid Nutrition

Paul Murphy is Chief Executive of Valid Nutrition since 2009. Formerly Chairman & Chief Executive of Unilever Ireland where he spent 27 years in a variety of different roles & countries, having joined the Management Development Programme as a trainee after graduating from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Economics & Business Administration. Experience in Unilever spans marketing/sales & 15 years in senior general management positions.